Kathleen E Rooney

My Very End of the Universe: Five Novellas-in-Flash and a Study of the Form

My Very End of the Universe is a celebration and study of an increasingly popular genre: the novella-in-flash, a novella built of standalone flash stories. The novellas in this collection--Betty Superman by Tiff Holland, Here, Where We Live by Meg Pokrass, Shampoo Horns by Aaron Teel, Bell and Barga...

For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs

In this collection about life as a twentysomething in the twenty-first century, Kathleen Rooney writes with the finesse of someone well beyond her years, but with fresh insights that reveal a girl still making discoveries at every turn. Varied and original, the tales in For You, For You I Am Trillin...

Sisters: An Inside Look (Vocations)

Sisters: An Inside Look is the story of one Roman Catholic sister living out her call to the consecrated religious life. Sr. Kathleen Rooney reflects on her ministerial journey in the light of the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience that she made upon entering her community. She describes the r...

Big Lucks (#4)

Summer 2011 Issue, featuring work from Anne Barngrover, Caren Beilin, B.J. Best, Ryan W. Bradley, Dawn Coutu, Elisa Gabbert, Ricky Garni, Andrew Beck Grace, Joe Hall, Jason Huskee, Michael Kimball, Cheyenne Nimes, Nick Ostdick, Christie Ann Reynolds, Nick Ripatrazone, Kathleen Rooney, Justin Sirois,...

Reading with Oprah: The Book Club that Changed America, 2nd Edition

Adored by its fans, deplored by its critics, Oprah’s Book Club has been at the center of arguments about cultural authority and literary taste since it began in 1996. Reading with Oprah explores the club's revolutionary fusion of books, television, and commerce and tells the engaging and in-depth st...

Brevity & Echo: An Anthology of Short Short Stories

Fiction. Edited by Abigail Beckel and Kathleen Rooney. Introduction by Ron Carlson.BREVITY & ECHO is an essential anthology of previously published short shorts by Emerson College alumni. BREVITY & ECHO broadens the scope of this rich and expanding genre with a wide range of flash fiction styles, an...

Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object

Live Nude Girl: My Life as an Object is a lively meditation on the profession of art modeling as it has been practiced in history and as it is practiced today. Kathleen Rooney draws on her own experiences working as an artist's model, as well as the famous, notorious, and mysterious artists and mode...

Robinson Alone

Poetry. "Meet Robinson, the protagonist of Kathleen Rooney's brilliant novel-in-poems ROBINSON ALONE. Conjured up by Weldon Kees and set loose in an urban landscape, Robinson reflects and refracts mid-century American kitsch, optimism, and despair. 'What do you / think the post-war world will be lik...

Sisters: An Inside Look